While some films like Butterfly Effect with Ashton Kutcher have recently tried to emulate Robert Zemeckis”s 1985 smash hit, none have achieved a fair amount of critical success. While Back to the Future was not Zemeckis”s first directorial venture – he had directed Romancing the Stone with Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas the previous year – it was the first box office success that he penned himself.
Everyone can remember Michael J. Fox”s Marty McFly as he, along with Dr. Emmett Brown – acted superbly by Christopher Loyd – flew back and forth between the present and the past. This jumping through time-frames technique was reused in the sequels but they lost the freshness of the original that manipulated and put to work the audience”s imagination.
Machiavelli Hangman (http://www.hangmanmovie.com the predicted-to-be sleeper hit of 2006, is said to have the same story structure and patterns as the beloved time-travel films. However, in this case, there is no literal depiction of the time-traveling however, the audience goes through the different dates and although this is a simple use of flashback and flash-forward, there is a very uncanny sense of time-traveling involved.
“I wouldn”t say so much that Machiavelli Hangman is like Back to the Future but that it”s perhaps a cinematic rendition of Marcel Duchamps”s drawings, you could say” explains the writer-director Shervin Youssefian (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1352346/ who is better known for his award-winning short films on the film festival circuits.